“What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?”

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

“You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.”

“There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.”

“man cannot be trusted unless they are watched”

“This man belongs to me, I want him!”

“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”